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There are several characters not included in this comic. Most of them were either featured recently or will be featured soon. I just wanted to touch base with some familiar faces, many who have not been spotted since before the comic went on hiatus!

“Post-Search” was originally the last four comics of “The Search.” I just split them off because I felt like having some fun with Schwartz and the Galanos brothers first. Although I still have one longer script from back when I wrote it four years ago, I’m trying to keep stories to three or four comics if possible. With only one new page a week (and hoping I can keep up that pace), I don’t want to spend too much time in one place. It’s also a challenge to myself to trim some of the fat – keep the better jokes and move the narrative along. I think the days of 22-part video game wrestling sagas and epic adventures with The Smurfs are behind us.

Although this comic was written a long time ago, a scene in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called “Tapestry” that I watched this week echoed the feel I was going for here. I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t seen what I think is one of the best episodes of that series, but there’s a scene where Picard gets to see what it would be like if someone else was the captain of the Enterprise and he was stuck at a lower rank doing menial, safe jobs. Pretty haunting, frustrating and even chilling. In the case of Schwartz and Galanos, they’ve always been those guys stuck with a lot of the menial jobs. Pays to have some initiative and drive sometimes, doesn’t it? And you certainly wouldn’t want to see yourself eclipse yourself!

So, April 1 came and went without me trying to get one over on you or make you go, “WTF?!” I considered various options, but ultimately decided the whole “I’ve been fired from the comic!” storyline a couple of months ago was more than enough. At least for this year.

Isn’t that the way? The more money an employee makes a company, the higher the tolerance there is for any oddities in that employee’s behavior. It’s all about the bottom line!

I was excited when LEGO introduced the Classic Space shirt minifigure torso in 2009 (the 30th anniversary of Classic Space), because it was such a great callback to a legendary theme from the past. But I couldn’t help notice that my favorite Classic Space minifig was missing from the design. I was sure Schwartz wouldn’t miss that either, and would bring it up in the most uncomfortable of ways!

Another year, another 100 comics or so. Of course, the big deal in 2011 was getting my own site up and running. I’m not going to get too detailed about which stories you’ll see in the coming year, since I invariably fall behind or go in different directions. But more than ever, I’m sticking to my outline of the stories that need to happen to further the overall plot. After “Bootlegs,” which is a longer story, comes “The Search,” a story that I’ve been hinting at for awhile. After that, we’ll see…